Population Record

[Shikari]

More merchs most likely

[Henvar]

true

I think 75% of that amount are just merchs. 25% are active.. perhaps even less.

[thecursed]

Time for me to make 70 merchant accounts to boost the pop to 600 and steal more pandelina items :D

[Namine]

Wait so... no merchant = "horrible economy, everything overpriced and monopolized, waaa" and yes merchant = "pointless population boost/trowa-duplication that means nothing but cakes, waaa"?

Plus I thought that once in awhile Pandelina gave more than just cakes?

[thecursed]

Plus I thought that once in awhile Pandelina gave more than just cakes?

Who ever said she only handed out cakes? /swt
Also a lot of the shops are useless ones selling items not even over 100k. Because really who wants to buy skull rings.

[Weapon]

Perhaps there could be a rendition of @who that excludes all merchants/high merchants, just to see who's alive and awake--or at least logged in. The # of excluded-merchants-that-are-awake-aware-and-playing who aren't counted can be balanced out by the number of alchemists/creators and blacksmiths/whitesmiths that are also @at'ing.

Other than that I'd say the only way to get an accurate census would be to tally up how many unique IP addresses have been accessing the server over the past month.

[Namine]

Who ever said she only handed out cakes? /swt
Also a lot of the shops are useless ones selling items not even over 100k. Because really who wants to buy skull rings.

I bought skull rings (if they are 5k and lower) once to slot them to make a poporing skull ring out of it before

As for the who suggestion, it's not an unique idea that other servers have done, but then you get the opposite argument that you are hurting the server with a low population report, and new players aren't going to investigate how the number comes out to be.

So while good intentions are there for either approach, GMs are usually caught in a losing battle. You might as well just leave the population count as they are now to focus on other stuff, like heRO birthday and halloween and all~ It's getting to the holiday season barrage soon with only november to rest, then bombardment of holidays again with christmas and onward.

[GM-Pandora]

561!

[Matrim Cauthon Jr]

Personally, I don't see why the dislike of merchants. They are a game mechanic. The Hero population is growing steadily.

[Former-GM-Circe]

Not only are we breaking population records, we're also currently first on RMS.

And not only in the LR listings. We're currently in highest place among ALL servers there.